An open-source tool named NOVET for Web-based video editing is presented. It
allows the user to edit video content and post videos through a Web browser. This paper
introduces the user interface, functionality, and architecture of NOVET. Comparisons
with five other similar tools are given to show the merits of NOVET. When compared
one on one, NOVET has four or more functions that are better than those of the other
tools.

Received March 14, 2011; revised June 28, 2011 & February 17, 2012; accepted April 6, 2012.
Communicated by Kwei-Jay Lin.
* This research was supported in part by the National Science Council of Taiwan under contracts No. NSC
96-2221- E-011-161 and NSC 97-2221-E-011-093. A preliminary version of this paper has been presented in
the 10th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.